Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD

There is no question that the violence in Israel and Gaza has heightened tensions on college campuses across the U.S., as students, staff, and administrators grapple with how to respond.

more than a decade after the election of the nation’s first Black president notwithstanding, race is still the unruly, rambunctious elephant running wildly through the room.

Denying such hard truths about various racial tragedies in our nation’s history does nothing to bring us any closer to any sort of racial reconciliation.

White residents of Tulsa engaged in two consecutive days of violent and sadistic carnage, eventually burning and destroying the Greenwood District. The national guard had to be called in. More than 300 people were killed.

While America is indeed a very colorful, racially diverse, and a pluralistic society, our history has been anything but racially progressive, open and tolerant. Past and present.

such forces have been very astute to playing on the fears, resentments, hatreds, fragilities and insecurities that have rankled the psyches of their listeners, readers, voters, and congregations.

Rather than focusing on tactics and effort that can or will possibly provide substantial dividends for Black (and in some cases other constituents), many organizations, such as the NAACP and others, have too often resorted to relegating themselves to performing symbolic gestures.

It is an incident that vehemently personifies how some white people can - and often - manipulate and exploit their social stations in life in an effort to put people of color “in their place,” so to speak.

there is a segment, regardless of how small that minority is, that are bereft of any reasonable level of emotional discipline and should be forfeited the option of owning them.